Kestenbaum and Company: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters, 107, Brooklyn

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Auction Date
September 19, 2024 - September 19, 2024
Page Size: 290 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Offenbacher Haggadah. One of 300 numbered copies. This being a special copy (see below).

Offenbach 1927 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
27

A New Critical Edition with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes, Literary, Historical, and Archeological, by Cecil Roth. Hebrew text and English translation.

London 1930 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
28

The Haggadah. Executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth.

London 1939 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 17,500.00
29

Kerem Chemed. Edited by Samuel Goldenberg and Senior Sachs.

Vienna, Prague, Berlin 1833-56. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,000.00
30 HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

Jeschurun. Ein Monatsblatt zur Forderung judischen Geistes und judischen Lebens, in Haus, Gemeinde und Schule

Frankfurt a/Main 1859-70. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 50.00
31

Horowitz, Chaim ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel].

Jerusalem 1844 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 125.00
32

Yehuda Leib (Fischman) Maimon.

New York 1918 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 156.25
33

SHIMON B'R YOCHAI (traditionally attributed to). Sepher HaZohar al HaTorah.

Amsterdam 1728 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,125.00
34

Tikunei HaZohar. With Haskamah on verso of title page by

Korets and Polonoye 1791 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 343.75
35

Tikunei HaZohar. Haskamah on verso of title page by R. Aharon of Chernobyl.

Zhitomir 1865 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,750.00
36 KALISCHER, YECHIEL MICHEL BEN ARYEH LEIB SEGAL.

Sha'arei Shamayim [philosophical sermons, poems and eulogies].

Prague 1675 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
37 KARO, YOSEPH.

Shulchan Aruch ["Prepared Table": Code of Jewish Law].

Venice (1565-68) USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 16,250.00
38 KARO, YOSEPH.

Shulchan Aruch ["Prepared Table": Code of Jewish Law].

Venice (1565-68). USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,500.00
39 KARO, YOSEPH.

Shulchan Aruch - Choshen Mishpat.

Slavita 1822 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
40 KATZENELLENBOGEN, NAPHTALI HIRSCH.

Toldoth Adam [novellae to Talmud Tractate Yevamoth].

Homburg 1740 USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
41

Tikun Leil Shavu'oth and Hoshana Raba.

Slavita 1827 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,000.00
42

Machzor: Rosh Hashanah VeYom Kippur.

Munich 1949 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 112.50
43 LONDON, YA'AKOV.

(Ed.) Shivah Einayim [selected novellea and discourses]. FIRST EDITION.

Livorno 1745 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
44 ELIYAHU GERSHON OF PINTCHOV.

Melecheth Machsheveth.

Berlin / Frankfurt an der Oder 1765 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
45 MENACHEN BEN MOSHE HABAVLI.

Ta'amei Mitzvoth [on the categories and reasons for the precepts].

Lublin 1571 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,500.00
46

Talmid Tzachkan Musari [dialogue in Hebrew and Yiddish against gambling.]

Frankfurt an der Oder 1795 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
47 NOSTRADAMUS.

Ein Mishpat. Translated from Latin into Hebrew by Moses ben Leon Botarel.

Constantinople c. 1561. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
48 OPPENHEIM, YEHUDAH LEIB BEN YISSACHAR.

Minchath Yehuda [commentary to Yoreh De'ah, including Ta"Z and Sha"Ch].

Homburg 1736 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
49 Loewenstamm, Avraham ben Aryeh Loeb.

Tzeror HaChaim ["The Bond of Life": Nine Responses to the Innovations of the Reform Movement]

Amsterdam 1820 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
50 SARUG, YISRAEL.

Na'im Zemiroth Yisrael [Kabbalistic commentary to the three Sabbath songs composed by the Ar'i z'l].

Lvov (1793?) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
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    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
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